Re: recogniWindows XP will notze my CDRom drive

From: Jerry (NoSpamChiefZeke_at_MSN.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:59:54 -0800

Is everything being correctly identified in your BIOS?

How old is the motherboard? The battery could require replacement as the
BIOS might be losing all info.

"TriForce" <TriForce.1id9ho@news.nospam.local> wrote in message
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>
> For a while now My computer wont recognize any cdrom drive. What I mean
> is it wont even have the icon in "my computer" at all. Ive tryed
> swapping the cd rom drive with one i know works and also changing the
> IDE cables however niether has any effect. When I first connect the
> cdrom and start up the computer the plug and play thing pops up and
> says it found the cdrom drive, but then when i go into device manager
> it says it is unable to find it with error 41.
>
> Another wierd symptom is when i remove the driver and reboot windows
> exp during the boot process it says that i have no secondary master and
> that i should switch the slave drive to master. Once again I have
> swapped the ide cables around to ensure they are in correctly and still
> no result.
>
> My problem has gotten progressivly worse and My computer wont even
> start up with the secondary ide cable plugged into the motehr board. I
> am pretty sure that the problem lies with either windows xp or my mother
> board.
>
> Finally i would imagine that a format of the harddrive and a clean
> install could fix this problem (if it is with windows) but i cant do
> this with out a functional cdrom drive.
>
>
> Thanks for any advice or sollutions
>
>
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